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by blackbear_ 1008 days ago
I should have been more clear.

The comment I replied to seemed to make the following reasoning: "a lot of junk science uses oversimplified models; this work also uses an oversimplified model; therefore, this work is also junk science".

And my intention was to point out that this kind of reasoning is invalid, because simplification is an important aspect of the scientific process.